From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 14 22:06:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA29124 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 22:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from counterintelligence.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA29115 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 22:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by counterintelligence.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA00239; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 22:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 22:05:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Joerg Wunsch cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Sunthiti Patchararungruang Subject: Re: Need Help about BPF In-Reply-To: <19970913221342.BV60285@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk By the way --- rarpd is broken, occasionally it will not answer rarp requests for no good reason for some diskless workstations i have using rarp (don't worry my freebsd ones are using bootp) and i have to restart it to get it to work. On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Sunthiti Patchararungruang wrote: > > > Dear Sir, > > Probably many of them here. :) > > > Someone in FreeBsd.org told me that I should use BPF. I rarely > > have the document about it, only have BPF(4) man-page and BPF data in > > ftp.ee.lbl.gov. If you also recommend BPF, please tell me where I can find > > the information about it. > > Well, your problem isn't quite clear to me. Anyway, if you intend to > send some arbitrary packets down to the wire, have a look at the > implementation of rarpd(8) (in /usr/src/usr.sbin/rarpd/), i think it's > doing a similar job. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >